246 The Core Whip

Jen was wandering like a leaf on water.

She was trying to remember and follow the map but this place was not mentioned in the map then rendering her helpless to find a path.

She admitted that she has lost her path and aimlessly thought to find a place for Cultivation.

If she cannot find a way now, perhaps after she breakthrough Legend Realm, she could find the path.

She heard the raging flow of the water near and start to look for it.

She saw the shiny lake of the water and unintentionally walked toward it, the expert was waiting for this moment, he used a whip and bright slash fell on her body, Jen lost her balance and fell in the lake triggering the core barrier.

The lake itself was hidden but the expert let it be exposed for few moments to trap the girl.

As soon as lake exposed, the barrier also appeared.

Swan Lake was under the barrier and runs around the core, only the expert who control this core can give anyone access to this hidden region.

Since Jen offended this expert by plucking the most precious flowers, he intended to teach her some manners.

\"She thinks herself smart,\" he sneered.

Jen was whipped and she rolled on a ground instead of lake after she entered the barrier.

The whip slash was not hurting much, she sat and looked around who whipped her cowardly? whoever attacked her from behind while remain hidden was coward in her eyes.

\"Miss don't sit her like a guest, and please control yourself else...,\" before the man in front of her could finish what he has to say, she was whipped again.

The expert was aware what was running in her head, he was Heart Cultivator and the one strongest who could control the core, why would he let a small girl abuse him coward?

This time the whip was hurting her, she was still sitting on the ground while looking at the man standing in front of her and he shook his head.

Jen furiously stood up, \"Whoever you are just appear once and I'll let you know how a sneak attacker is called coward,\" she tried to use her Evanesce Aptitude and disappear but she could not use it and fell back on the ground.

\"Ah, you offended the core expert,\" the man exclaimed with worry.

The core expert was offended second time if before he was thinking to send her back after some whipping, now he was determined to teach her how to show some manners.

The Heart Cultivators were strict in their rules and they don't spare anyone who go beyond and break them.

In their eyes, a Heart Cultivator should be clean of malice, only then a Heart Cultivator can be considered Supreme and could face evil and win.

In his eyes, this girl was uncorrectable and despairing, and he was wondering if such girl exist in the Cultivation world.

\"Expert? you say that the expert is giving this whip?\" Jen spread her eye of Dark Sight to take a look at the expert.

She was flaming with the fury to meet such irreconcilable expert, hopefully her Attribute worked this time.

She saw far and wide but it was same ground with no signs of any expert, because as soon as she activated her Eye of Dark Sight, the expert retracted his lingering aura.

And it removed all traced of his presence in the surrounding.

He was still here, the Eye of Dark Sight was limited to see through darkness when he was bright core and the one who control with his will.

How Jen could see him in this condition.

\"Miss, I need to sow the seeds before dusk, can you stop acting brave and hand them over?\" the man flung his sleeve and was ready to go.

He was also a Heart Cultivator and he might not waste his time on this girl and her useless attempts.

If he remained here and warned once again, he was sure his master would punish him if not stripped from his job for one day.

He was assigned few daily jobs and he liked to follow these core jobs being among the respected members of the core jobs.

\"What seeds, I don't have them,\" Jen tried to stand up.

\"Miss, lie is not allowed in this sacred place, if you lie you will be punished for one day,\" the man extended his hand and snatched her storage bracelet, he was ordered by the expert and after getting this order he was sweating with worry.

He easily opened the seal of the storage and emptied her storage on the ground, there were many things for her use stored inside, the man picked the flower and showed it to her, \"These are seeds that you dare to steal,\" he flung his sleeve and flew away farther.

Jen was left dumbfounded.

When did she steal? These flowers were hanging out and she plucked, does that count as stealing? She thought in her head.

\"Yes, it is count as stealing,\" a man wearing simplistic armor descended down and answered what she questioned in her head to herself.

\"Who are you?\" Jen thought that it was the expert.

\"I don't know why Cultivators speak something else and think something different, why this hypocrite?\" he shook his head.

Jen who was ready to begin a fight, halted, he was right, she asked who was he while she was telling herself already.

She never gave it a thought, she behaves as rapscallion, she was forced to admit her fault this time.

But she was not entirely at fault, right?

It was what she got used to with time after she met number of difficulties.

But how these people can tell what was running in her head.

Whoever appear take her thinking as an offence, what was this place and the people?

\"What is your name?\" the man brought out a notebook and asked her name.

\"I am Jen,\" she answered without thinking anything in her head.

\"Miss Jen, you are given one day punishment for the crime of speaking lie under the sacred territory and after that you will face seven day punishment for stealing precious seeds from the property of sacred land,\" he wrote down her name and crime and handed her two texts.

\"As long as you cross the punishment days, the text will disappear and you will be counted as innocent,\" this punishment was given by the expert.

Jen looked at it and then at the man but the man already went back and she was left alone.

She was looking at the text, she looked around and shouted, \"You cannot confined me for an unintentional act, right?\"

She ran around to find her way back.

\"If the previous acts were unintentional then you are considered despairing Heart Cultivator and what are you doing now, thinking to run away? Mm, another crime,\" a whip slash fell on her back and she fell with the pain.

\"What, how can running for life be considered as crime?\" she questioned serene.

\"You are right, it's not small crime to neglect the orders of an expert, it is called breach of manners and claiming a war against senior,\" the voice sounded from every corner.

The text which fell from her hand was now pasted on her forehead.

Now this text will remain pasted on her head until she faced her punishment and learn some manner.

Jen heard the words and could not speak further, the voice went silent too, she was laying on the ground, the whipping was getting painful, it seemed the expert was getting angry with her actions.

The ground turned from green to bleak, slowly dusk shrouded her surrounding and as soon as the evening fell, there was snow falling everywhere.

The core was providing a strong environment to the seeds now, and the seeds started sprouting small buds.

Few buds were shining with red, white and many more colors while few were colorless and transparent.

As soon as colorful buds reached few inches they were plucked and the expert disappeared with the colorful buds, he went in the Penumbra valleys and scattered those colorful buds there.

As soon as these buds embrace the ground, the ground shook and hid the buds inside.

The expert returned back in the core region.

Jen fell unconscious after feeling intense pain on her back.

The snowflakes touched her armor and slide down, soon she was covered under snow.

Nobody came to look for her and shift her under shelter, the Swan Lake was flowing as usual while the snowflakes were floating above the surface.

Cruel whipping caused her strength shatter or it was again that expert behind, she was clueless.

Jen woke up with the pain in the middle of the night, she was shivering and her back was intensely feeling pain, fortunately, the wounds were not deep or something halted the bleeding, perhaps the blood froze with the cold, she fell back.